“He keeps going up and down and going from side to side and people are saying we don’t know what’s taking so long to go in there and save him,” Brooklyn resident XXXXX XXXX told the Daily News. “He’s in bad shape. You can tell. A dolphin is gray, but he’s black right now. He was starting to swim toward the middle of the canal. But it doesn’t look good.”
An injured dolphin that became stranded in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal died Friday, a marine foundation said.
The Gowanus Canal is in Brooklyn, flanked by the Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook neighborhoods, according to NBCNewYork.com. It empties into New York Harbor.
The Environmental Protection Agency says storm water runoff, sewer outflows and industrial pollutants have made it one of the most extensively contaminated water bodies in the U.S.
Brooklyn claims another. RIP
